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Waiter, Can I Get a WordPress Menu, Please? – Newsletter #247

“Excuse Me, Can I Get a WordPress Menu, Please?”

(WordPress News)

Sarah Gooding at WP Tavern explains WordPress for Android’s big move away from the “hamburger” style navigation menu: “WordPress for Androidversion 4.1 is sporting some major design changes. Navigation in the app has been redesigned to remove the hamburger button in favor of four simplified tabs spanning the top of the screen.” You lost me at beer and hamburgers.

“I Will Be the Greatest Jobs President That God Ever Created”
(Opinion)

Speaking of job creation, if you want to be able to work from anywhere on the planet, on a beach in Hawaii or taking your lunch break fly fishing a stream in Alaska, WordFence is looking for a PHP developer.

“Not everything has to be some polarizing issue that divides an audience. Sometimes, there are considerations and other points to be made that sit more on neutral ground than anything else, that gets lost in the heated debate on a hot topic, and that’s what I’d like to discuss.” Tom McFarlin takes a political approach to the current heated debate over adding WordPress Menus to the Customizer.

“Please trust me when I say this — it’s a bigger challenge than you think. But, it’s a fun challenge to tackle — if it’s not fun try something else.” Josh Polk gives WordPress capitalist hopefuls business advice when it comes todeveloping and selling plugins.

The *best* part of attending WordCamp is you’ll never need to buy another t-shirt again…ever. As an added bonus, every t-shirt you own is now adorned with your favorite WordPress brands. Make sure and visit the Mange WP table for “swag” and be on the lookout for the studs in the WPMU DEV shirts (if you ask nicely and want to take a selfie we may even have a shirt for you.)

If you know someone interested in possibly using WordPress, and can’t make it to WCEU, BobWP is hosting a “What is WordPress and Why Should I Use It?” Workshop in Seattle, WA July 29th. “This workshop—What Is WordPress and Why Should I Use IT?— helps you make better decisions, whether you are a hobbyist, a blogger or a business startup.” It’s kind of the same thing…right?

Off the Record

(Themes and Plugins)

If you run a small business site, like for a record shop or a cupcake delivery service, CustomPress makes organizing products and services so much easier. Create cool custom post types for things like vinyl records and red velvet cupcakes, all without having to mess around with code, leaving you more time to listen to cool tunes and eat cupcakes.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes looks at the WP-CRAP plugin, which removes all customizer links from the Appearance menu, Themes screen, and the admin toolbar in WordPress, essentially rolling your site back to the days prior to WordPress 3.4 when the Theme Customization API was introduced. Woah… Customizer haters gonna hate.

Argent is a beautifully bold portfolio theme that was launched on WordPress.com last week.

That’s all our links until tomorrow. Today’s edition of The WhiP is brought to you (a little late, sorry!) by sweat, mineral water and tasty, tasty paella. Hola!

Mmm… BBQ – Newsletter #251

Riding in Cars with Boys

(WordPress News)

The WordPress community in France is creating cool stuff, like MailPoet and WP Rocket. Have you heard of Polylang? You will soon. Developer Jenny Beaumont writes with pride about how her fellow French are embracing WordPress.

The WhiP is packed with WordPress news and gossip, must-reads, tutorials and how-tos, as well as other random awesomeness from across the tech world. Sign up to receive the early email edition and get the news before anyone else.

Can’t get over the law suits against all the WordPress named sites. Is it a trademarked term – yes. Are these guys cybersquatting – maybe yes/maybe no. But legal action like this only puts a damper on future development of sites that support and add value to the wordpress community as a whole. Without the active involvement of these 3rd party sites the overall popularity of wordpress would take a serious nosedive.